(Aledo Democrat - June 9, 1908)
Hon. J. C. Pepper, a well known and leading lawyer of this city and section of the state, died at his home in Punta Gorda, Florida, on last Friday, June 5, 1908, after an illness due to the infirmities of old age. The remains will probably arrive in this city this evening, but possibly not until tomorrow morning, and will be accompanied by the daughters. Funeral services will be held tomorrow, but the hour has not been fixed. Definite arrangements will not be made until the arrival of the funeral party.
Mr. Pepper was born in Cambridgeshire, England, September 21, 1829. He came to this country with his parents when about seven years of age. The family settled first at Amboy, Oswego county, New York, where he passed his early life. When sixteen years of age he left home and went to Vernon in that state to attend an academy, and remained there two years after which he entered the Wayne County Institute, pursuing his studies there three summers, and teaching school during the winter months. In 1848, failing health induced him to come west, and after spending a year in Peoria he came to this county and settled in Keithsburg, which was then the county seat, and where he was admitted to the bar, January 6, 1851. In the same month he was united in marriage with Mary Ann Martin. Seven children were born to them, three of whom are dead. Those surviving are, Mrs. Helen Martin of Falls City, Nebraska, Misses Bertha and Norma and Mrs. Mabel Weeks who resided with him.
In 1862 he raised Co. H, 84th, Ill. V. I., and was elected captain. He commanded his company with deserved credit at Stone river, and was three times wounded in that battle. Resigning his commission he returned home to Keithsburg, where he continued to reside until 1869 when he moved to Aledo. In 1880 he was an independent candidate for circuit judge but was not elected. In that same year he organized the Illinois State Temperance Alliance, and was its president until it was consolidated with another temperance organization in 1882. He was a very active temperance worker, and made many temperance addresses throughout the state.
It was as a lawyer that Mr. Pepper was best known. He was a very strong and forcible speaker, and his arguments to juries were delivered with telling effect. He enjoyed a wide reputation as a trial lawyer and his services were always in demand in the most important cases. His fame had spread far beyond his personal acquaintance, when failing health compelled him to give up the practice of law. Being afflicted with a rheumatic trouble he was at first compelled to spend the winter months in the south to escape the rigorous climate, until August, 1896, he severed his connection with the law firm of Pepper & Scott and located permanently at Punta Gorda, Florida, where he has ever since remained. With his removal to Florida, Mercer county and this section of the state lost one of its greatest and best known lawyers. He was also a student of history and literature and possessed a natural inclination toward scholarly attainments.
After going to Punta Gorda he lived a retired life, devoting a part of his time to the culture of pineapples, etc. His wife died several years before he moved to Florda, but his three daughters, Bertha, Norma and Mabel have lived with him and cared for him in his declining years.
(Aledo Democrat - June 1908)
The funeral services of the late John C. Pepper were held at the Presbyterian church last Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conduted by Rev. Alfred S. Badger D. D. of Waukesha, Wisconsin, assisted by Rev. H. B. Allen. Interment was in the Aledo cemetery. The active pall bearers were six members of the Mercer county bar association, appointed by the presdent, I. N. Bassett. The other members of the bar acted as honorary pall bearers. The acitve pall bearers were Judge W. T. Church, W. J. Graham, R. L. Watson, D. A. Hebel, John M. Wilson and John E. Mardock.
Attorneys from other bar associations were S. S. Hallam of Monmouth, and James W. Gordon, E. L. Werts and E. L. Moffitt of Oquawka.
Rev. Badger was a particular friend of the Pepper family, having been spending his winters in the south at Punta Gorda, where he and Mr. Pepper had become close friends.
Hon. J. C. Pepper, a well known and leading lawyer of this city and section of the state, died at his home in Punta Gorda, Florida, on last Friday, June 5, 1908, after an illness due to the infirmities of old age. The remains will probably arrive in this city this evening, but possibly not until tomorrow morning, and will be accompanied by the daughters. Funeral services will be held tomorrow, but the hour has not been fixed. Definite arrangements will not be made until the arrival of the funeral party.
Mr. Pepper was born in Cambridgeshire, England, September 21, 1829. He came to this country with his parents when about seven years of age. The family settled first at Amboy, Oswego county, New York, where he passed his early life. When sixteen years of age he left home and went to Vernon in that state to attend an academy, and remained there two years after which he entered the Wayne County Institute, pursuing his studies there three summers, and teaching school during the winter months. In 1848, failing health induced him to come west, and after spending a year in Peoria he came to this county and settled in Keithsburg, which was then the county seat, and where he was admitted to the bar, January 6, 1851. In the same month he was united in marriage with Mary Ann Martin. Seven children were born to them, three of whom are dead. Those surviving are, Mrs. Helen Martin of Falls City, Nebraska, Misses Bertha and Norma and Mrs. Mabel Weeks who resided with him.
In 1862 he raised Co. H, 84th, Ill. V. I., and was elected captain. He commanded his company with deserved credit at Stone river, and was three times wounded in that battle. Resigning his commission he returned home to Keithsburg, where he continued to reside until 1869 when he moved to Aledo. In 1880 he was an independent candidate for circuit judge but was not elected. In that same year he organized the Illinois State Temperance Alliance, and was its president until it was consolidated with another temperance organization in 1882. He was a very active temperance worker, and made many temperance addresses throughout the state.
It was as a lawyer that Mr. Pepper was best known. He was a very strong and forcible speaker, and his arguments to juries were delivered with telling effect. He enjoyed a wide reputation as a trial lawyer and his services were always in demand in the most important cases. His fame had spread far beyond his personal acquaintance, when failing health compelled him to give up the practice of law. Being afflicted with a rheumatic trouble he was at first compelled to spend the winter months in the south to escape the rigorous climate, until August, 1896, he severed his connection with the law firm of Pepper & Scott and located permanently at Punta Gorda, Florida, where he has ever since remained. With his removal to Florida, Mercer county and this section of the state lost one of its greatest and best known lawyers. He was also a student of history and literature and possessed a natural inclination toward scholarly attainments.
After going to Punta Gorda he lived a retired life, devoting a part of his time to the culture of pineapples, etc. His wife died several years before he moved to Florda, but his three daughters, Bertha, Norma and Mabel have lived with him and cared for him in his declining years.
(Aledo Democrat - June 1908)
The funeral services of the late John C. Pepper were held at the Presbyterian church last Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conduted by Rev. Alfred S. Badger D. D. of Waukesha, Wisconsin, assisted by Rev. H. B. Allen. Interment was in the Aledo cemetery. The active pall bearers were six members of the Mercer county bar association, appointed by the presdent, I. N. Bassett. The other members of the bar acted as honorary pall bearers. The acitve pall bearers were Judge W. T. Church, W. J. Graham, R. L. Watson, D. A. Hebel, John M. Wilson and John E. Mardock.
Attorneys from other bar associations were S. S. Hallam of Monmouth, and James W. Gordon, E. L. Werts and E. L. Moffitt of Oquawka.
Rev. Badger was a particular friend of the Pepper family, having been spending his winters in the south at Punta Gorda, where he and Mr. Pepper had become close friends.
(Aledo Democrat - June 9, 1908)
Hon. J. C. Pepper, a well known and leading lawyer of this city and section of the state, died at his home in Punta Gorda, Florida, on last Friday, June 5, 1908, after an illness due to the infirmities of old age. The remains will probably arrive in this city this evening, but possibly not until tomorrow morning, and will be accompanied by the daughters. Funeral services will be held tomorrow, but the hour has not been fixed. Definite arrangements will not be made until the arrival of the funeral party.
Mr. Pepper was born in Cambridgeshire, England, September 21, 1829. He came to this country with his parents when about seven years of age. The family settled first at Amboy, Oswego county, New York, where he passed his early life. When sixteen years of age he left home and went to Vernon in that state to attend an academy, and remained there two years after which he entered the Wayne County Institute, pursuing his studies there three summers, and teaching school during the winter months. In 1848, failing health induced him to come west, and after spending a year in Peoria he came to this county and settled in Keithsburg, which was then the county seat, and where he was admitted to the bar, January 6, 1851. In the same month he was united in marriage with Mary Ann Martin. Seven children were born to them, three of whom are dead. Those surviving are, Mrs. Helen Martin of Falls City, Nebraska, Misses Bertha and Norma and Mrs. Mabel Weeks who resided with him.
In 1862 he raised Co. H, 84th, Ill. V. I., and was elected captain. He commanded his company with deserved credit at Stone river, and was three times wounded in that battle. Resigning his commission he returned home to Keithsburg, where he continued to reside until 1869 when he moved to Aledo. In 1880 he was an independent candidate for circuit judge but was not elected. In that same year he organized the Illinois State Temperance Alliance, and was its president until it was consolidated with another temperance organization in 1882. He was a very active temperance worker, and made many temperance addresses throughout the state.
It was as a lawyer that Mr. Pepper was best known. He was a very strong and forcible speaker, and his arguments to juries were delivered with telling effect. He enjoyed a wide reputation as a trial lawyer and his services were always in demand in the most important cases. His fame had spread far beyond his personal acquaintance, when failing health compelled him to give up the practice of law. Being afflicted with a rheumatic trouble he was at first compelled to spend the winter months in the south to escape the rigorous climate, until August, 1896, he severed his connection with the law firm of Pepper & Scott and located permanently at Punta Gorda, Florida, where he has ever since remained. With his removal to Florida, Mercer county and this section of the state lost one of its greatest and best known lawyers. He was also a student of history and literature and possessed a natural inclination toward scholarly attainments.
After going to Punta Gorda he lived a retired life, devoting a part of his time to the culture of pineapples, etc. His wife died several years before he moved to Florda, but his three daughters, Bertha, Norma and Mabel have lived with him and cared for him in his declining years.
(Aledo Democrat - June 1908)
The funeral services of the late John C. Pepper were held at the Presbyterian church last Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conduted by Rev. Alfred S. Badger D. D. of Waukesha, Wisconsin, assisted by Rev. H. B. Allen. Interment was in the Aledo cemetery. The active pall bearers were six members of the Mercer county bar association, appointed by the presdent, I. N. Bassett. The other members of the bar acted as honorary pall bearers. The acitve pall bearers were Judge W. T. Church, W. J. Graham, R. L. Watson, D. A. Hebel, John M. Wilson and John E. Mardock.
Attorneys from other bar associations were S. S. Hallam of Monmouth, and James W. Gordon, E. L. Werts and E. L. Moffitt of Oquawka.
Rev. Badger was a particular friend of the Pepper family, having been spending his winters in the south at Punta Gorda, where he and Mr. Pepper had become close friends.
Hon. J. C. Pepper, a well known and leading lawyer of this city and section of the state, died at his home in Punta Gorda, Florida, on last Friday, June 5, 1908, after an illness due to the infirmities of old age. The remains will probably arrive in this city this evening, but possibly not until tomorrow morning, and will be accompanied by the daughters. Funeral services will be held tomorrow, but the hour has not been fixed. Definite arrangements will not be made until the arrival of the funeral party.
Mr. Pepper was born in Cambridgeshire, England, September 21, 1829. He came to this country with his parents when about seven years of age. The family settled first at Amboy, Oswego county, New York, where he passed his early life. When sixteen years of age he left home and went to Vernon in that state to attend an academy, and remained there two years after which he entered the Wayne County Institute, pursuing his studies there three summers, and teaching school during the winter months. In 1848, failing health induced him to come west, and after spending a year in Peoria he came to this county and settled in Keithsburg, which was then the county seat, and where he was admitted to the bar, January 6, 1851. In the same month he was united in marriage with Mary Ann Martin. Seven children were born to them, three of whom are dead. Those surviving are, Mrs. Helen Martin of Falls City, Nebraska, Misses Bertha and Norma and Mrs. Mabel Weeks who resided with him.
In 1862 he raised Co. H, 84th, Ill. V. I., and was elected captain. He commanded his company with deserved credit at Stone river, and was three times wounded in that battle. Resigning his commission he returned home to Keithsburg, where he continued to reside until 1869 when he moved to Aledo. In 1880 he was an independent candidate for circuit judge but was not elected. In that same year he organized the Illinois State Temperance Alliance, and was its president until it was consolidated with another temperance organization in 1882. He was a very active temperance worker, and made many temperance addresses throughout the state.
It was as a lawyer that Mr. Pepper was best known. He was a very strong and forcible speaker, and his arguments to juries were delivered with telling effect. He enjoyed a wide reputation as a trial lawyer and his services were always in demand in the most important cases. His fame had spread far beyond his personal acquaintance, when failing health compelled him to give up the practice of law. Being afflicted with a rheumatic trouble he was at first compelled to spend the winter months in the south to escape the rigorous climate, until August, 1896, he severed his connection with the law firm of Pepper & Scott and located permanently at Punta Gorda, Florida, where he has ever since remained. With his removal to Florida, Mercer county and this section of the state lost one of its greatest and best known lawyers. He was also a student of history and literature and possessed a natural inclination toward scholarly attainments.
After going to Punta Gorda he lived a retired life, devoting a part of his time to the culture of pineapples, etc. His wife died several years before he moved to Florda, but his three daughters, Bertha, Norma and Mabel have lived with him and cared for him in his declining years.
(Aledo Democrat - June 1908)
The funeral services of the late John C. Pepper were held at the Presbyterian church last Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conduted by Rev. Alfred S. Badger D. D. of Waukesha, Wisconsin, assisted by Rev. H. B. Allen. Interment was in the Aledo cemetery. The active pall bearers were six members of the Mercer county bar association, appointed by the presdent, I. N. Bassett. The other members of the bar acted as honorary pall bearers. The acitve pall bearers were Judge W. T. Church, W. J. Graham, R. L. Watson, D. A. Hebel, John M. Wilson and John E. Mardock.
Attorneys from other bar associations were S. S. Hallam of Monmouth, and James W. Gordon, E. L. Werts and E. L. Moffitt of Oquawka.
Rev. Badger was a particular friend of the Pepper family, having been spending his winters in the south at Punta Gorda, where he and Mr. Pepper had become close friends.
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